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Chapter 9
Reconstruction
Question | Answer |
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reconstruction | to rebuild |
sharecropper | a farmer who worked land owned by someone else |
Ben Tillman | Governor of South Carolina in 1890, wanted to help poor white farmers and created an agricultural college now called Clemson University |
poverty | not having enough money to provide the basic things needed to live |
debt | to owe money to someone else |
integrate | to bring together |
Jim Crow Laws | laws segregating African Americans from whites |
Freedmen's Bureau | a government organization that gave food, shelter and medicine to former slaves and poor white people |
14th Amendment | anyone born in America was a citizen and had equal rights |
15th Amendment | African Americans right to vote |